Sentences with phrase «negative yield changes»

«Negative yield changes in North America would substantially raise grain prices worldwide,» he said in Oxford, before leaving for the US to deliver his findings.

Not exact matches

The on topic Q&A included redesign plans for other streets, especially Queens Boulevard, why the administration attributes the reduction in pedestrian fatalities to Vision Zero and not to regular year - to - year variances, how the administration actually knows that driving speeds are reduced, why so few street redesign projects have been done on Staten Island, data for any changes in safety at this E.Tremont / Silver Street intersection, why Commissioner Bratton did not attend, why there are few speeding and failure to yield tickets issued in this (45th) precinct, the negative effect of speed bumps on emergency response vehicles, plans for marking and painting of roads, whether the mayor will seek additional red light camera authorizations from the state legislature, the paucity of criminal prosecutions against drivers who kill pedestrians and an estimate of money received from speed camera tickets.

Additional limitations to the traditional approach include: costly failures to replicate positive results in larger trials; difficulty in determining the reasons for negative results; low yield in terms of identifying disease or intervention mechanisms due to an exclusive focus on symptom change and clinical endpoints; and, the expensive and very lengthy practice of first establishing multi-component psychosocial treatments followed by years of «unpacking» studies.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) notes that climate change, if not tackled, will have severe negative impacts on global water supply, agricultural yields, forest ecosystems and the spread of vector - borne diseases, and could result in the displacement of thousands of people from coastal cities and small isChange (IPPC) notes that climate change, if not tackled, will have severe negative impacts on global water supply, agricultural yields, forest ecosystems and the spread of vector - borne diseases, and could result in the displacement of thousands of people from coastal cities and small ischange, if not tackled, will have severe negative impacts on global water supply, agricultural yields, forest ecosystems and the spread of vector - borne diseases, and could result in the displacement of thousands of people from coastal cities and small islands.

One of the oldest tricks in the game is to offer a high current yield, where the yield can get curtailed through early prepayment (typically in low interest rate environments), or some negative event that forces the security to change its form, such as when a stock price falls with reverse convertibles.

The 6 - month change in employment (using Household Survey data) had turned negative and the spread between 2 - year Treasury yields and the Fed Funds rates fell to less than -1.3 percentage points.

Typically, a bond will rise in price more if the yield change is negative than it will fall in price if the yield change is positive.

The negative correlation of -0.66 between these two variables indicates that when the broad high yield universe benefited from spread tightening, the HYLV index underperformed the benchmark from spread changes, and that spread widening would have less downward impact on the HYLV index than the benchmark.

Based on many studies covering a wide range of regions and crops, negative impacts of climate change on crop yields have been more common than positive impacts (high confidence)... Since AR4, several periods of rapid food and cereal price increases following climate extremes in key producing regions indicate a sensitivity of current markets to climate extremes among other factors (medium confidence).

Overall, the report said, «Negative impacts of climate change on crop yields have been more common than positive impacts.»

But it's a funny kind of world in which it is known that «negative impacts of climate change on crop yields have been more common than positive impacts», and yet yields per acre and in total have increased.

In fact the Summary says that negative impacts of climate change on crop yields have been more common than positive impacts, with wheat and maize yields negatively affected in many regions and effects on rice and soybean yields smaller in major production regions.

Graph shows how exposure to temperatures causes negative changes to sorghum yield (per acre).

These tools provide the means to sharpen assessment and management capacities required to: compare the result of several water allocations plans; improve soil - moisture control - practices under rainfed conditions; optimize irrigation scheduling; sustainably intensify crop production; close the yield and water - productivity gaps; quantify the impact of climate variability and change on cropping systems; enhance strategies for increased water productivity and water savings; minimize the negative impact on the environment caused by agriculture.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) notes that climate change, if not tackled, will have severe negative impacts on global water supply, agricultural yields, forest ecosystems and the spread of vector - borne diseases, and could result in the displacement of thousands of people from coastal cities and small isChange (IPPC) notes that climate change, if not tackled, will have severe negative impacts on global water supply, agricultural yields, forest ecosystems and the spread of vector - borne diseases, and could result in the displacement of thousands of people from coastal cities and small ischange, if not tackled, will have severe negative impacts on global water supply, agricultural yields, forest ecosystems and the spread of vector - borne diseases, and could result in the displacement of thousands of people from coastal cities and small islands.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) notes that climate change, if not tackled, will have a severe negative impact on global water supply, agricultural yields, marine ecosystems and the spread of vector - borne diseases, and could result in the displacement of thousands of people from coastal cities and small islands (Kenya climate change action Change (IPPC) notes that climate change, if not tackled, will have a severe negative impact on global water supply, agricultural yields, marine ecosystems and the spread of vector - borne diseases, and could result in the displacement of thousands of people from coastal cities and small islands (Kenya climate change action change, if not tackled, will have a severe negative impact on global water supply, agricultural yields, marine ecosystems and the spread of vector - borne diseases, and could result in the displacement of thousands of people from coastal cities and small islands (Kenya climate change action change action plan).

Negative impacts of climate change on crop yields have been more common than positive impacts (some positive trends are evident in some high latitude regions).

This debate has failed to yield a consensual value, with some scholars proposing that the discount rate for climate change should be negative and others permitting rates of 5 % or more.

The term «negative emissions» designates CO2 that is removed from the atmosphere, and can refer to either techno - industrial processes (e.g., Biomass Energy with Carbon Capture and Sequestration, or BECCS) or changes in land - use practices that yield substantial enhancement of carbon sinks (e.g. afforestation and low - carbon agro-ecological techniques).

With examples drawn from developing countries worldwide, the document shows how eco-friendly farming systems are helping smallholder producers to boost cereal yields, improve their incomes and livelihoods, conserve natural resources, reduce negative impacts on the environment, and build resilience to climate change.

The failure to account for different environments points to the main problem with the planetary boundaries framework: it only measures environmental change as negative — as progression toward supposed biophysical boundaries — and never as positive, either for humans (e.g., more food) or environments (e.g., higher yields resulting in less deforestation).